Tag: podcasts

  • All of the nerd content I’ve made this fiscal year, so far

    This is “content” I’ve made from November, 2024 to today that has something to do with my work. Mostly “to do with” means “talks about the tech world,” if not directly about the concerns and products we have and do at Tanzu. Items include videos, podcasts, white papers, published recordings of conference talks, guesting on…

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  • “Let’s face it, everything runs on computers now.”

    “Let’s face it, everything runs on computers now.”

    Original content Here’s two of my podcasts to share with you: Capitalism is working, Software Defined Talk #534: “This week, we discuss the US backing Intel, SaaS staying power, and AI’s impact on deep work. Plus, Matt Ray’s moving tips and more kolache talk in the after show.” Also available, unedited, in video form. The…

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  • In the world of podcasts, YouTube is now the elephant in the room — just like in TV – This is obviously a category error: if I can’t add it to Overcast with an RSS feed, it’s not a podcast. But, (1) old man yelling at clouds, it me! and, (2) aside from using the…

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  • Digital News Report 2025, Reuters and Oxford – “These shows are filmed, with many people watching on YouTube – the most popular platform for podcasts in the country, with 50% of US podcast consumers using it.”

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  • “the great murderer of boredom”

    “the great murderer of boredom”

    My Content Two Software Defined episodes this week: “I used to eat 7-Eleven pizza,” startups, open source, and more, with Sarah Christoff – After an extensive discussion of 7-Eleven pizza cuisine, in this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Sarah Christoff. They discuss working at startups, the point of startups, working in open source and…

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  • Old Media Finally Wakes Up from a Coma – “Hey, guys”-style getting more mainstream. // Also, long form podcasts.

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  • Reflecting on the ROI of marketing efforts I’ve done recently – “Reflecting on the ROI of marketing efforts I’ve done recently: Print isn’t that useful unless it’s with a writer with a voice (e.g., a substack). Audio and video really make an impact. You want to be inside someone’s EarPods. Speaking at trade shows is…

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  • Recovering from the platform dark ages, and freaking out about cheap AI

    Recovering from the platform dark ages, and freaking out about cheap AI

    Interview: Brian Gracely Whitney and I interviewed Brian Gracely for this week’s Software Defined Interviews episode. It was a great, big ol’ basket of topics: the process of gathering and reporting cloud news, the evolution of PaaS, and the pros and cons of working at small startups versus large companies. Also: career advice, the importance…

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  • Fake Software Defined Talk #487

    The Deep Dive crew does their version of a Software Defined Talk episode.

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  • “Make content about what you’re curious about, not what you know.”

    “Make content about what you’re curious about, not what you know.”

    Our new podcast is out, Software Defined Interviews, with me and Whitney Lee. For the first episode, I interview Whitney. I’ve known her and worked with her now for, I don’t know, three years? She’s so great to talk with and so smart on all the cloud native stuff. In our episode, we go over…

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  • Deep Dive: Digital WTF book discussion

    The Deep Dive crew discuss my book, Digital WTF. This is a collection of columns I wrote for The Register between 2014 to 2018. This one is 32 minutes, which gives a lot of time to see the weird things – strange noises they make, repeated phrases and talking patterns. In the producer notes, I…

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  • Why CSV is still king – We have a running joke on the podcast that every (enterprise) app needs CSV export. It’s only 10% a joke.

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  • Aligning with User Needs with Rod Johnson – ’Spring Source ended up not monetizing Spring at all — but rather worked on monetizing with products that were complementary to Spring. “We monetized Spring by not monetizing Spring, by using it to open the door”’ // Great interview if you’re into the whole open source business…

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  • The Digital Transformation Card Game – an interview

    This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast episode is an interview I did with Jana Werner. If you’re into software, DevOps, agile, product management…all that “digital transformation” stuff, you’ll like it. We go over a deck of cards she’s put together that are meant to provoke executives and managers to start thinking about they could change…

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  • Lessons from Uber on developer productivity & platforms

    Tell me the last new condiment you tried that you didn’t like. Developer Productivity One of my co-workers worked at Uber for awhile on their internal developer tools and platforms. In this week’s Tanzu Talk episode, Cora and I talk to him about what they did, why, and how as well. Check out the video…

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  • Re-thinking tech debt, an interview with Laura Tacho

    The discussion below was fun: we starting talking about alignment ambiguity in Dungeons and Dragons, then went to the role of tech debt in large organizations, and threw in some “this meeting could have been an email” like thinking at the end. Check it out! Wastebook I’m super busy right now. I’ve got a lot…

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  • We Fear Change (because we don’t get any rewarded for all the risk)

    We Fear Change (because we don’t get any rewarded for all the risk)

    Suggested playlist for this episode. We Fear Change, a new talk I’ve got a mostly newish talk coming up next week about people’s fear of change in organizations, on Oct 24 2023 at 11:00am Amsterdam time. Register to Watch the Talk It’s narrowed down, of course, for software and ops stuff. You know: all that…

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  • What does Backstage actually do?

    Videos! I finally got a good handle on what Backstage does today – not the outcomes it helps you get, but what it’s base, core capabilities are. Ben gave me a nice overview of the basics and let me learn-by-questioning a lot. Hopefully we’ll get together for two more parts: talking about the plugin ecosystem…

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  • It’s hard to make content from 20 yeas of transcripts

    It’s hard to make content from 20 yeas of transcripts

    In Iowa I was in Des Moines this week to give one of the keynotes at DevOpsDays Des Moines (it went well). Here’s some snapshots from around town: CEO Therapy This week’s Software Defined Talk: This week, we discuss Netflix’s DVD deprecation, the remote work debate, and how to fork an open-source project. Plus, thoughts…

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  • Garbage Chair

    2023-06-02 day note

    Traveling back home, to Amsterdam, today. Yesterday’s VMUG Belgium talk went fine. Since it was to VMware admin types, I positioned my platform talk as a glimpse of their future. Whenever the infrastructure changes, you can use new application architectures…and then that drives new types of infrastructure and management needs…and so forth. It means that…

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